Study: Financially-Dependent Women Less Likely To Use Condoms

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(BlackDoctor.org) — Young women whose significant others are their primary source of spending money are more likely to report that they don’t use condoms, according to a study in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

• Almost one-quarter of the women in an HIV prevention study reported that they count on their significant other for spending money and that they had not used a condom in the preceding two months.

“We live in a consumerist society in which people may feel that they cannot belong unless they have certain things,” explains lead author Janet Rosenbaum, Ph.D., who studies sexual decision-making at the University of Maryland Population Research Center. “Women who have needs that they feel aren’t being met may act unwisely to meet those needs.”